Why do british people say football and americans soccer?

In my opinion, being English and so using football for football! We use that word as it is a game played with a ball using the feet. It may be a slang name though and the posh name being soccer. However, Americans already have a game called American Football although as far as I can tell it hardly uses the feet at all and in scoring a touch down the ball does not have to be touched down anywhere at all. Which they shorten to football so needed to call it something else. So they use soccer as it is not such a favourite game there.

Hi! There is really some difference between British English and American English in terms of pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary. The football - soccer difference is one of the differences. If I just may share, other examples of the vocabulary difference are the following: flat (BE) vs apartment (AE); lift (BE) vs elevator (AE); rubber (BE) vs eraser (AE).

The Americans have two games called 'football'. American Football is commonly known as 'football' so the English game of Association Football must be called something else and the slang term 'soccer' (an abbreviation of 'Association') is used for it. In England there is no confusion. We use 'football' and 'soccer' indiscriminately for the same game. American football is not common here and is always called 'American football' when one needs to refer to it.

It was technically called football first, but we silly Americans have started calling it soccer. Then we have our own version of football. I say soccer but I grew up in America. I think calling it football makes more sense since you use your feet to play it, but I'm not at all into sport like... at all. I run from athletes and roll my eyes at superbowls and world cups.

I've read the same answer in this forum Mylot since I'm a member. More than five times I've found people asking this. Just look for with the search tool, and you'll fin the answer.

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If I'm not mistaken, it is because what is considered and called Football in America has not really taken all that hold in England and what is soccer was called football first. Then really soccer is not all that big in America but what we call football is but soccer is called that. At least that is the understanding I have gotten as a result of the situation but I could in fact be wrong. Then again, there are a lot of differences between American English and British English(and sometimes Canadian and Australian English in many ways). I always was under the belief that what is spoken in America really should be almost a separate language then other forms of English. There are some common words, but a lot of the meanings have been changed and the spelling. For example, honor would be h-o-n-o-r in America but it would be h-o-n-o-u-r in other American speaking countries. Color or colour, differences like that.